running goal opposition activists hi john got a peaceful antigovernment rally in moscow leading to the flashes of the police and injuries on board signs why no more from you could have been all from me in just a few moments. on confirmed reports say socialist francois online the incumbent may go as a cozy and france's presidential election with official exit polls set to be released imminently as you can see here live pics from paris much celebration so we'll be keeping you posted as those results come in. and a leading human rights activist from bahrain is arrested just days before our t.v.

is to air his interview with a song in which he spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in his home country . now and thanks for joining r.t. this sunday with me karen. now very exciting sunday than mikel last cozy looks to have become the first french president since world war two to have lost a reelection bid reports coming from france are putting his opponent socialist francois hollande as the winner of the country's head to head presidential vote we can now cross to our correspondent tess are silly and paris for more of this the reaction most likely is on his way to victory doesn't. well actually

he has already won just seconds ago we are looking at the numbers out sixty two percent for france solondz and forty eight percent for nicolas sarkozy you can hear the crowd behind me who i can try to think of i was at the headquarters of the socialist party and they are ecstatic they hear their say that they have voted for change they have had enough of the classical see a stark contrast to the mood at the a cab of it because sarkozy very musical over there and here is certainly celebrating now the question is how much shades are they really going to see they voted for this battle hoping that their problems would it come so out of the oil because all the economic crisis they've been facing will be a soul so that is the question how much change can we really bring about this model throughout the campaign has been the change is now it has been a very very tough a campaign and we saw a record number a large number of fresh people coming out to vote this time only nineteen point

nine percent who have studied should read and add to our show how watching the french people watch at this so again you can hear the crowd shouted just want to give you a sense of what they're feeling right now i think that i'm thinking of everything right now but celebrating was and will are for us all are for his part had said that right after he was he's preparing his we find out you want to speak to german chancellor angela merkel this photosynth said that that could happen tonight see some movement already happening there but again just to repeat to you the results here fifty two percent to four possible laws the socialist challenger headed because sarkozy was forty eight percent and he is the first president since world war two has a border reelection bid and a lot of supporters because of the seventy eight was president is seventy years ago back to power doesn't it i know it's hard to hear and i can see we're looking at live pictures everybody very excited has there been any word of the people who aren't excited about alonso victory. well certainly. yes so close he says

some psycho sea cow but they're certainly not very happy about this will they have been kept to the very end have been trying to fight hard for this it tried to keep a cautious optimism even that they had come out and said that he was god ready for the wait but certainly it does not look at that way right now you know right tess arsole r r t correspondent live there looking like a very exotic celebration thank you for that update we've just heard fifty two percent. has become president now somebody who isn't that excited economist patrick young he's a director all that investment firm who says how there's no real difference between the candidates and that neither although we know francois hollande has won neither of these people can offer a solution to france's financial woes. the economic policies that have been put forward by all of the candidates in the french presidential election even in the first round were all based upon the most juvenile understanding of economics that

we've ever seen i mean it's a sort of thing that bloggers love and you all see at the bottom end of the comment pages amongst all of the teenage people who love to use those sorts of things on the internet but is it realistic of course it isn't and actually i think while we're all whole town he turned wrong and the whole ship of what has been the new the pigmy achievements of the boys and war for the elites i know of course you can't and ultimately what's going to happen with these european relationships where of course everybody's trying to make it as if it's going to be some sort of huge controversy but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other and therefore you have two politicians neither of whom realistically have got a chance of putting france on the right economic truck. well let's now get more reaction from these results from france joining me now is alex korbel spokesman for the contra points dot org

a news website mr corbell so it seems that in the first round sarkozy a received a forty eight point two one percent that is the lowest number of votes sitting president has received in the history of france what were the failures that led to such a poor result. well i think from the beginning because he was seen as a meddling too much we saw rich people and so it was a stay of that was like a big weakness for him during his ease reelection campaign but also he's like. the bottom line of these monday it was disastrous he didn't make the economic reforms that he promised and the few that he actually made. where really. really lukewarm and and the treaty so successful so the. sentiment in front that change was actually possible with sarkozy

a totally disappeared in two thousand and twelve and i think it's fair to say that francois results in the first round were one of the left's best ever are people simply are desperate for some alternative to these drastic cuts and economic stagnation. well actually i think that french voters. a choice between them and they're no longer wanted. and a man they don't really want and so alone these are going to i mean he promised a lot of thing you promised more. subsidiaries jobs. new public jobs in in education nearly sixty so on. a raise in the minimum wage. to crazy in the in the pension in the pension age i mean the retirement age and then. from a system as though i mean the figure is he's not like twenty billion additional

expenses he plans to do a fine and twenty billion i try expenses by raising taxes so you will see a lot of posts to reach in the future and believe me believe me in the coming weeks or in the coming months. the the bull markets will be more watchful of the french voters whether two names i want to throw at you angela merkel and david cameron they have openly voiced their support for soc ozy but now that has won what's going to happen to their relationships between these countries. between poland on cameron i don't really know but between. the thing that he you know well known he's willing to negotiate a new treaty when it comes to fiscal did disappear believe me he will experience in the coming months the. the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of purchaser of america because medicare will face an election in in one year and will

not be willing to compromise we said was a french president and the relationship between france and germany are really not a relationship between equals so i think that. again as from promised a lot of things but you would not be able to to actually deliver them when it comes to fiscal discipline now we know that sarkozy's foreign policy was rather aggressive i mean he returned france to nato increased its military presence in afghanistan and took a major role in nato's air campaign in libya how do you foresee all odds policy different. generally when you look. at the history of france that there is no real difference between. the center left and just into right when it comes to foreign policy so you should expect.

the continuation of the current trend. and you've been in them in the media and even mention that in the middle east and the same. is the same for push for more european integration all right alex hormel spokesman for the cultural points dot org news website thank you. thank you very much. opposition activists have clashed with police in central moscow after defining orders to move to the officially agreed location for their rally the anti-government protest dubbed the march of millions was timed for the eve of putin's presidential inauguration artie's a year going to school all that has the details. the police have managed to restore order on bolotnaya square most of the protesters have now left the area but i must say at some point it was pretty ugly itself originally was pretty peaceful until one of the radical leaders of the opposition i said if you will die so if called on

the crowd to move away from the authorized area and gather at another spot not agreed with the authorities the police tried blocking the crowd due to safety reasons but i guess some of the radical activists tried breaking through the very key to leading to scuffles and clashes with the authorities some activists were seen throwing pieces of concrete molotov cocktails even and small growing aids at the police and this led to injuries on both sides according to the latest figures that we're getting twenty seven people have been injured including twenty policeman at one point the situation here in moscow really began looking like last year's riots in london and many people we spoke with here say they're fed up with this huge you have to deal with the people who carry out such actions are extremists while people who want to change things though not by way of revolution not by violence but through really forms those are the kind of people we need like you to

get a solution we looked at these protests out of control there's nothing good in this we need to try and find peaceful solutions to all problems. simple will not die you know everyone sick and tired of that so we want peace this is useless. several journalists were injured here as well and in a separate incident a man fell out of the window of the building as he was taking photographs of the protest march the building is not far away here from square it's fair to say that police were not getting ready for any aggressive behavior from the protesters since most of the previous rallies did go on peacefully so there were no water cannons no teeth tear gas. used either but due to the aggressive behavior two hundred fifty people were arrested including three opposition leaders including sigil guards often blogger aleksey in the one the who is now calling in his twitter account for people to go to more unsanctioned broadest rallies. party's political analyst peter

lavelle believes that the organizers of the march needed to provoke the authorities to keep the whole protest alive there have been protests here since the start of the russian federation this is nothing new but the same people that these numbers are not growing they're getting smaller gentleman they're getting smaller someone needs a provocation to keep this movement alive because gentlemen logically speaking this is the last thing but a mere who didn't want the world to see the day before he's inaugurated one of the interesting things is of the protest movement energized the base for the presidential election now we're going to see it in space again energized because people going to look at this and say oh this is not what we bought into with mr putin because this was the one nine hundred ninety s. this is the one nine hundred ninety s. people don't want to go back there putin will comment on it tomorrow and elsewhere and moscow supporters of the government out political establishment then marking the anniversary of the popular front movement created by vladimir putin last year

our correspondent was there. within supporters of course are pro primarily those who are comprising the popular frauds which is liberating it's one years that a verse or a today. organization was formed. with that in order to bring together all those who were not participating in any political parties were not members of any political parties but no one just at one point maybe to make a sort of a political statement those people were all gathered under the umbrella of the popular front and a lot of the work here today flags there saying victory and woods and together because people here are primarily those who support the government and everything that is happening in the country right now at the moment and just as vladimir putin prepares to take office a russian fugitive is offering big money for his arrest exiled russian tycoon morris. is offering almost seventeen million u.s. dollars to anyone who detains putin at the inauguration of course is not the first

time he's offered a such a bounty but despite the economic crisis the sum has increased ten fold from his previous offer for more on the story let's join journalist don de bar so down some russian media reports citing leaked information that suggest but it's all ski is throwing his considerable fortune behind the russian opposition in a sort of hidden campaign to discredit top figures of power does that sound believable to you. so let me preface everything that i say here with a disclaimer that it's based on information and belief and the reason i say that is mr berezovsky is apparently extremely with tejas he's sued russian state television forbes magazine and the guardian among others in the u.k. courts where he is in exile and apparently u.k. courts don't consider his status as a public figure sufficient to give the benefit of the doubt to those who are making

the claim so. i believe that that that he is behind this site i can't say that i have a large base of facts to base it on however you have the following context first is the political context you know he's a minor kissed and among other things but that's that's where his political leanings have been voiced and the trend in russia from both the duma and presidential election although it showed some erosion in united russia's position that all went to the left to the communist party and to fair russia or whatever the social democratic party there and much of that was at the expense of the far right so he's actually out of touch with the sentiments of russian voters in the last two elections and cycling the international context is that i have strong suspicion is that the united states intelligence services are behind this and it's odd that this

is happening at the same time that the incident with the so-called chinese dissident has occurred with him scaping from house arrest to the u.s. embassy in the whole drama that went on around that and i believe that this is some sort of political payback for russia and china taking a position on syria at the united nations where they vetoed u.s. military action which still leaves the united states extremely frustrated over the events in syria so i would i scale i'm sorry to interrupt but good sources who suggest it is also he is in cahoots with some mysterious western partners on this venture any inkling as to who those partners might be well again i said i think there's a very strong possibility that he's acting as an agent for u.s. intelligence and the fact that he's been you know working in the u.k. and has had the support of the british courts in shutting down british press russian press and american press in their criticisms of him tells me that he has

some very powerful allies and very. i levels in the west now it is off is baiting prosecutors to seek his extradition on this matter and why is it that he'd want to do something like that well he thinks he'll get a day in court where he'll be able to do discovery and show whatever embarrassing things he knows about the russian government he was very close to putin a long time ago and it was during the period of privatization that he was very close to the previous government to yeltsin and so who knows i mean he suddenly went from being you know one of a nation of socialist people standing in relation to the means of production that way is suddenly owning a huge chunk of the reserve production so maybe he thinks he's going to be able to undermine the legitimacy of the current russian government by going to war but the other side of it is what really interests me because that would be illegal in any other part of the world to basically say i will pay you to kidnap the head of state

which is what he said all right down of our i'm sorry that's all the time we have an anti-war activists and journalists thank you thank you. now police in bahrain have detained the head of the country's center for human rights without explanation now bill roache all known for his firm opposition to the ruling regime was arrested just days before an interview with the world's top whistleblower julian assad's is due to air on r.t.e. the civil rights leader was already facing charges of participating in protests against the government and was returning to power for a sunday court hearing the uprising has been going on for about fourteen months now with a predominantly shiite population protesting against the sunni or ruling dynasty. and you to have a chance to see julian aslan as exclusive interview with nabil over a job on tuesday here on r.t. . i speak to two leading revolutionaries

one from bahrain where the revolution failed was really where the revolution is though in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. the syrian government has granted an amnesty to two hundred sixty five rebels ahead of monday's mull time party parliamentary vote the first such election in decades meanwhile a series of blasts in the capital damascus and the northern city of aleppo killed at least three civilians on saturday and sara further reports people are placing increasing hope ball in the un observer mission monitoring the frequently breach ceasefire. in the heart of damascus thousands come out at the funerals of people killed during clashes in the capital once again drew into focus the very precarious situation the country now finds itself in before the

bodies of the that they carried through the streets of damascus a few rules the people who were killed under the station they here's the story you've got the military the security watching and this is at the same time as the u.n. observers are supposed to be here overseeing the peace plan you know early in the day we join the u.n. observers on one of the daily to is to flash point areas if services been traveling to some of the areas where the focus is by things being right and you can see on the ground smooth slow steps are being taken in the observers are really going to be wanting over the coming period the fielding on the observers also based full time in some cities like homs and it led many have felt that their presence there has bought some calm and we have little time between stops to speak to the people who live here those we do talk to tell us that the last few days have been quiet

but they don't know how long that will last. there's not much happening here now while i'm about to show people running. people shooting and i ran away i don't know exactly what was happening we're here at the checkpoints on the device because the u.n. has just done a tour through the area it's been a very very fast trip they've literally driven through stopping at some of the military checkpoints around to speak to some of the people but no more than five ten minutes at a time to give you barely enough time to speak to some of the people in the area and get a feel for exactly what's been happening here was the observers presence here does seem to have made some small in rights situation in the country is far from. stable tension in the capital of damascus is palpable explosions here a regular occurrence now and security everywhere is tight firefighters rushed to the scene after a demonstration servers themselves have admitted

a resolution won't happen even night and it will have to come in large parts from the syrian people themselves but with parliamentary elections next week and with the observer mission under close scrutiny scenes like this would do anything to raise hopes that this mission will be a success but they also show the very real and urgent need for it to be say. r.t. damascus. this week delmore terrible just twenty minutes apart on thursday and the republic of dagestan killed thirteen people and wounded more than one hundred two vans packed with explosives detonated in the outskirts of the capital market. artie's maria talk to the relatives of those who gave their own lives to save others. national mourning dagestan under muslim tradition three days after the funerals family and friends come to the symmetry twice a day to pray and to paris packed to their loved ones over. two

massive car bombs hit the capital on thursday claiming more than a dozen lives this freshly dug grave is the final resting place of twenty nine year old police officer. back of his name is hendry can hear. me he says he feels lost without his brother who'd acted as the head of the family since their dad passed away years ago. when the first blast happened i tried to call him but it varied that he called me back saying he was around and had gone to the seed to help he said all was fine with him but the scene is a mess and he has to stay out to help i could hear cries and sobbing through his phone he said i'm going to call you in five to ten minutes ok. but he never called back the next time she would see his brother would be in a morgue. a piece of metal that had been placed around the bar into

his chair and came out through his day. the symmetries keeper says at least this family had a body many others received only body parts in plastic bags it's a sad fact that the recent attacks on the police and authorities in dagestan a merely the latest incident in a long running history of violence in russia's volatile caucasus region but thursday's tragedy has already become the most devastating in months the first explosion took off here when officers from this police post stopped the car for documents checked apparently the driver was a suicide bomber minutes later as many police cars and ambulances teams and emergency crews and fire brigades reach the area the second loss the courage it was much more powerful you can see the. crater is huge one some reports say the second last had a force of one hundred kilos into intake will and i don't claim to the most victims

the double attack one born after another is a tactic commonly used by international terrorist organizations such as and qaeda in places like iraq and afghanistan is designed to kill as many people as possible if their right jihadi networks around the region is hosting its dreaming is even funding some of the activities of you know terrorist in russia in an instant lives were snuffed out families left devastated. women again under the rules of don't go to cemeteries they grieve at home in the modern along with the wife or the teapot say he never liked cameras and they have to console themselves with a few pictures they have. left in the morning and then came back you forgot something i told him this is a bad luck all will be fine mom could try to calm me but. she i don't know how long i'm gonna live but i'll live for the. leaves behind two

little girls. i'll tell the girls as their father is watching us and will tell them to be proud of him because he was a brave man he ran to help and died he was the best father in the world i'll tell than. in rushes degassed on well that's one way i have for you this hour just to remind you that on monday we're bringing you special coverage of ludden reports and inauguration from seven thirty g.m.t. in the morning from the stunning splendor of the kremlin hall. download

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